Digital BW, The Print

Hi Martin:

Thanks for your speedy advice; I did pull off the tape before installing the 
cartridges. In fact, I pushed a pin through the vent hole in the black cartridge 
to make sure...there was a "grainy" sound as though the cartridge contained 
lots of solids. I'll try the Epson color cartridges. One question;

How do I clean out the color ink when I do switch back to the hextone 
cartridges?

Thanks,

Joel

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Wesley" <
mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> 
> 
> * -----Original Message-----
> * From: Joel Beeson [mailto:bluzdoctor@y...] 
> * Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 2:44 PM
> * To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> * Subject: [Digital BW] I'm on a deadline...Epson 1280 doesn't 
> * print...help!
> * 
> * 
> * Hello:
> * 
> * I just set up a new (it's been in a box since early last 
> * year) Epson Photo 1280 
> * to print an exhibit of my student's work. I never installed 
> * the OEM Epson color 
> * cartridges, but instead, installed a set of MIS VM hextone 
> * cartridges that were 
> * just delivered yesterday.
> * 
> * I installed the Epson driver on my Apple G4 (OS X 10.2.8) and 
> * followed the 
> * directions for installing the MIS cartridges (two cleaning 
> * cycles). I cannot get it 
> * to print an image out of PhotoShop, nor even the Epson head 
> * nozzle test 
> * pattern.
> * 
> * It sends the data to the 1280, the machine goes through the 
> * motions of 
> * printing, but no ink is laid on the paper. I cleaned the head 
> * three times and 
> * then quit trying.
> * 
> * I'm on a deadline for the exhibit, so any advice and help 
> * would be most 
> * welcome.
> * 
> Joel,
> 
> Check and make sure you removed the tape covering the vent holes in the 
top
> of the cartridges. If the vent holes are not open the ink can't flow out.
> 
> If they are properly vented put in the Epson cartridges and see what you
> get. If those are not working then you have a problem with the printer.
> 
> Martin Wesley
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